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Wogan’s run

Nobody died in radioland last week (or hadn't at the time of writing, anyway), but there is a sense of what might almost be called bereavement at Sir Terry Wogan's decision to leave Radio 2's breakfast show. Much frothy speculation, inevitably intensifying after he passed the age of 70, had attended the question of his exit. But it was still a huge upset, a tear in life's ordered and familiar fabric, when he announced his departure last Monday to his 8m listeners. They embrace not just an army of Terry's Old Geezers and Gals - the Togs - but all the Togettes as well. His last show will be on December 18, which happens to be St Winebald's Day - and how apt is that for a man known to enjoy the occasional glass, and who also wears a toupee?

Joking aside, and whether we regard Chris Evans as a screeching "ginger whinger"